Prof. Edmund Ugwu Agbo of the International Bio-Research University (IBU SC), Cisterna di Latina, International Bio-Research Institute Ugwogo Nike Enugu and also Head of the Department of African Geopolitics, Geolaw and International Diplomacy in the United Nations International University for Peace, Europe Campus, spoke on “Crimes against Women in the African Continent: Legal, Moral and Cultural Dimensions”.

In this paper, Prof. Agbo examined some of the Culturally-oriented Crimes in some African countries, prominently among which were: denial of the right of succession to women, discrimination against the girl-child
in many parts of Africa, and so forth. He also warned against the emerging crimes against the women folk that were centred on cultures imported from the Western world, like same-sex marriage and the “omnipotentialization” of the women folk. The effort made by the legislators in many African nations to regulate the crminal abuses of the women folk and the urgent need by African law makers to disentagle Africans from the Eurocentric and imperial vision of the Westerners were emphasized.

Towards the end of the paper, he praised the good initiatives of the President of NFD, Prof. Barr. Fedrica Federici for providing the interdisciplinary and intercultural forum in which the value of man, considered from an interdisciplinary view point, is central; and in which the law and law makers can gain more insight into the need for appreciating others and their ways of life in the “I and Thou” manner.